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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Kolej Profesional MARA (KPM) was established in 1977 and its current administrative centre is Bahagian Pendidikan Tinggi MARA (BPT).

It is a fully government-assisted college that was established to increase the number of Bumiputera workers in the public and private sectors, particularly in the field of business, accounting and information technology. It is also aimed at enhancing academic excellence among Bumiputera students who have attained moderate results in their SPM.

The five colleges throughout Malaysia are:

• KPM Beranang (KPMB) in Beranang, Selangor

• KPM Melaka (KPMM) in Malacca city, Malacca

• KPM Indera Mahkota (KPMIM) in Kuantan, Pahang

• KPM Seri Iskandar (KPMSI) in Bota, Perak

• KPM Bandar Penawar (KPMBP) in Bandar Penawar, Johor

• KPM only conducts full-time courses and its medium of instruction is English.

Activities that has been conducted in the past semesters are as follows:1. Explorace-This program was open to all students of KPMIM and was held after class hours. Participants are required to hunt for all the clues given by each station which is located around the campus. Some of the stations required each group of participants to do stunts or face a challenge before they could receive their hint or clue that would lead them to the next station.

2. Talent Night- Talent Night was held during the past three semester. This program was open to all Decom students. The first Talent Night was during the Jul-Dec 2008 semester where karaoke talents are sought after. Next, during the Jan-June 2009 semester, Talent Night was still looking for karaoke talents and surprisingly many male contestants joined for the first time. The last Talent Night was on Jul-Dec 2009 semester, where Talent Night was more focused towards the talent of bands who battled each other on that night.

3. Decomography- During English Week, for the Jul-Dec 2010 semester, Decom Student's Club has organized Decomography. It is a night event held at the cafe where there are showcases of talents in singing, playing guitar and poetry.

4. Fashion Walk on the Opening of Decom English Week-This event was held during the Jan-Jun 2009 semester, where there was a fashion show to open for English Week and Talent Night

5. Farewell Dinner for Decom Semestr 5 students

6. Indoor board games and Outdoor games- These games were also held in conjunction with Explorace as there are some students who were not interested in outdoor games so they participated in the indoor games.

English Department was first published on January 2001. Since it was published there was no founder that was recorded. There were only a group of lecturers who contributed in this English Department. They consisted of Miss Zarina bt Ahmad, Mr Azwin Ariff, Miss Nor Yazi, Madam Shereen and Miss Amelia.

As time passed over the months, here came another two lecturers which were Madam Nor Aidah and Madam Dahlia in July 2001. Later on, Madam Shereen was appointed as the Head of English Department around 2002 to 2007 before Madam Zarina Ahmad took place as the Head of English Department from 2007 to 2010.

The first program that was conducted by those lecturers was PIP which was only 4 groups on January 2001. Another program was DIA and PIP around July 2001. Later on, FHND and HND also were conducted among those lecturers. However, during December 2002 our DEC program was introduced in our college. The last program offered in this college was DCN.

After that, English Department had added another 5 lecturers in order to improve the learning quality. DEC program was such a demand among students nowadays. The reason why DEC program was not introduced in other KPM colleges because they might require lots of lecturers. Hence, they need at least 20 lecturers to open DEC program. Besides, the costs for opening this program also high. This is due to the high salary among the English lecturers.

Currently, our English Department has around 29 lecturers whereby they consisted of 6 lecturers who hold MASTERS, 9 lecturers who hold TESL and 14 lecturers who hold non-TESL. Our male lecturers only have 5 lecturers where the rest are female lecturers.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The English Department has conducted many activities since last year and up to the present time; such activities were orchestrated by the English Department and the Decom Club alongside with the help of The English Language Society, The Peer Guidance Club and also the Student Representative Council.

Past Events.

1. Educator day

The day was 22nd May 2009, the ELS members organized a huge event for the college that fit into the hectic schedule of the Action Week. The event started off at 8.45 a.m., soon after the arrival of Miss Hajah Noraini binti Hussein . The opening prayers were recited and the program began.

2 students performed the opening act with a Silat Performance and then Mr. Ahmad Saruddin bin Endut took over the stage for a while and led the swearing of the Oath of Ethics for the lecturers .

Next was there was the Nasyid performance that was performed by Aisar, the college Nasyid group then, came 8 beautiful girls (and 1 guy) who performed their ‘Joget Pahang . Rozaida Hashim and her troop of dancers mesmerized the audience with their graceful and refined movements. Next, there were poem recitals by Ammar bin Ahmad, Nur Jannah binti Mohd Azah and Nur Adha bin Ali Nafiah. lastly Siti Nor Amirah performed a medley of songs, the most memorable being ‘The greatest love of all’.

The closing ceremony was when lecturers and students took to the stage to perform the ‘poco-poco’ dance!

The event ended at nearly 10.30 am and everyone was totally blown away with every single performance that was performed on the stage. It is hoped that this will not be the last Educators Day in MPCIM.

2.English Carnival

On 17 July, 2009, 25 students went to Kolej Mara Seremban as the representatives of Kolej Professional Mara Indera Mahkota in one of MARA’s programs - the English Carnival accompanied by four lecturers. In this national event, nine colleges were invited to take part as well as compete in the activities that were arranged.

In this carnival, students were gathered and divided into groups in order that all students were able to socialize with other students from different colleges. A lot of activities were held such as Cheer Competition, Indoor Games and also the LanguageRace. These games taught the students cooperation and teamwork besides improving their English in a fun way.

The best event at this carnival was the “P Ramlee Night” that was held on Saturday night. All colleges had sent their representatives to act and sing songs inspired by P Ramlee’s movies. “Labu Labi” and “Anakku Sazali” were chosen by Mr Humam for our college performance. Our performance was quite hilarious compared to other colleges. Unfortunately, we did not win the first prize our P Ramlee impersonation won second place in the “PRamlee Look Alike Competition”.

The major and most important event of this carnival was the “Cultural Booth”. Our college was given the Roman/ Greek theme. In the booth, people played their role as Caesar, gladiators, soldiers, slaves and peasants. The students had a lot of fun playing the carnival games and learnt a lot too from the information presented through LCDs. The College’s Caesar ( Aminurraasyeed Idiris) won the Best Dressed Male in the competition, making it the second achievement at the carnival.

On Sunday evening the students we’re back at the college with smiles on their faces and happy memories and experiences in their hearts.

3.English Language Society Day Trip to Taman Budaya, Kuala Lumpur.

On 17 October 2009, the English Language Society (ELS) went to Taman Budaya Kuala Lumpur to watch a theatre entitled Asylum. A total of 49 people which includes three lecturers Madam Chia Wai Fong the ELS advisor, Madam Ain Nadia Annua and Madam Wan Syaripah Munirah binti Wan Husain were involved in the trip

The students departed from KPMIM at 8.20 a.m. and arrived at KLCC at 1.30 p.m. Since the theatre will only begin at 9.00 p.m., so everybody was allowed to walk around the KLCC before leaving for Taman Budaya. Later at 6.30 p.m. the group head to Taman Budaya.

The show start with the “Medley of Mimes” then continued with “Asylum” theatre. Asylum is a comedy theatre about a group of mental patients from the Psychotic Theatre Unit Group that struggle to perform a play as the opening act of the new National Psychotic Institute. The play portrays how they try to do their very best and practicing their lines, etc. they performed a play that based on human life that drowned in the worldly temptations such as corruption, greed, drug addiction and conflict among the politic parties, human cruelty and more. It is a comedy yet, a performance that includes many current affairs that will make the audience give a lot of thoughts on what is happening in the world today

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This blog is designed to keep on updating and sharing the information on English Department of MARA Professional College, Indera Mahkota, Pahang Darul Makmur. This blog is supervised by our subject lecturer, Madam Susilawati Rahim.